Provenance
Probably Édouard Kahn, Paris; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 8 June 1895, no. 2); (Goldschmidt).[1] Sigismond Bardac [1856-1919], Paris; (sale, Paris, 1910). (E. Gimpel & Wildenstein, Paris), by 1924;[2] sold 1925 to Baron Maurice de Rothschild [1881-1957], Paris. Arthur Sachs [1880-1975], New York and Cannes, by 1928;[3] gift 1954 to NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1925
- Exposition d'art ancien espagnol, Hôtel J. Charpentier, Paris, 1925, no. 41, repro.
- 1928
- Exhibition of Spanish Paintings from El Greco to Goya, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1928, no. 6, fig. 6.
- 1933
- A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1933, no. 162.
- 1996
- Obras Maestras de la National Gallery of Art de Washington, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 1996-1997, unnumbered catalogue, 88-89, color repro.
Technical Summary
The picture is on a fabric of tight and regular weave and adhered to a fine lining material. All tacking edges have been removed. The ground consists of a rough layer of reddish brown particles over which rich oil paint has been applied with brush and palette knife. An examination of the pigments by x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy did not reveal the use of any pigments unavailable to Goya, although chrome yellow, which is present, was only introduced in the early 1800s.[1] The paint and ground layers present evidence of a history of poor adhesion. Flake losses have occurred in the thick, knife-applied layers and at cracks near the outer extremities of the picture. There are fills and retouches applied to many of the flake losses. The surface coating is somewhat dull.
[1] Identified by optical microscopy.
Bibliography
- 1902
- Lafond, Paul. Goya. Paris, 1902: 107, no. 29.
- 1903
- von Loga, Valerian. Francisco de Goya. Berlin, 1903: no. 547.
- 1908
- Calvert, Albert F. Goya: An Account of His Life and Works. London, 1908: 161, no. 143.
- 1914
- Stokes, Hugh. Francisco Goya. London, 1914: 352, no. 535.
- 1924
- Mayer, August L. Francisco de Goya. London and Toronto, 1924: 181, no. 666.
- 1940
- Trapier, Elizabeth du Gué. Eugenio Lucas y Padilla. New York, 1940: 48, pl. 24.
- 1947
- Lafuente Ferrari, Enrique. Antecedentes, coincidencias e influencias del arte de Goya. Madrid, 1947: 230-231.
- 1948
- Adhémar, Jean. Goya. New York, 1948: 22, pl. 111.
- 1956
- López-Rey, José. "Goya and His Pupil María del Rosario Weiss." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 47 (1956): 282.
- 1960
- Evans, Grose. Spanish Painting in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1960 (Booklet Number Ten in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.): 40, color repro., as attributed to Goya.
- 1963
- Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 321, repro., as attributed to Goya.
- 1965
- Gudiol y Ricart, José. Goya. New York, [c. 1965]: 164, color repro. 165.
- 1965
- Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 61, as Attributed to Goya.
- 1968
- National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 53, repro., as Attributed to Goya.
- 1968
- Shickel, Richard. The World of Goya, 1746-1828. (Time-Life Library of Art.) New York, 1968: 162-163, color ill., as Attributed to Goya.
- 1970
- Gassier, Pierre, and Juliet Wilson. Vie et oeuvre de Francisco Goya. Paris, 1970: 356-357 (also English ed. 1971: 356-357).
- 1974
- Walker, John. Self-Portrait with Donors: Confessions of an Art Collector. Boston, 1974: 146-147, repro.
- 1975
- European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 160, repro., as Attributed to Goya.
- 1975
- Koella, Rudolf. Collection Oskar Reinhart. Neuchâtel, 1975: 346.
- 1977
- Glendinning, Nigel. Goya and His Critics. New Haven, 1977: 124, 321, n. 5, fig. 36.
- 1981
- Arnaiz, Manuel José. Eugenio Lucas. Su vida y su obra. Madrid, 1981: 474, no. 342, color repro. p. 101, no. 84.
- 1984
- Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 404, no. 563, color repro., as Attributed to Francisco de Goya.
- 1985
- European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 185, repro.
- 1990
- Brown, Jonathan, and Richard G. Mann. Spanish Paintings of the Fifteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1990: 88-91, color repro. 89.
- 2003
- Wilson-Bareau, Juliet. Entry for "Eugenio Lucas Villamil, zugeschrieben, Corrida." In Sammlung Oskar Reinhart 'Am Römerholz' Winterthur. Basel, 2003: no. 19, 174-177, repro.
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